Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for supermarket socialism is an idea with a long history of failure.

His mother, Mira Nair, is a celebrated film director and his father Professor Mahmood Mamdani, teaches at Columbia. Both parents are Harvard alumni.

The Dalai Lama on Wednesday (Jul 2) said that the 600-year-old institution will continue after his death and that he would ...